Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Saturday The 14th movie is a cult classic. And you know another one like that that I did, is Three O'Clock High. People come up to me about those two all the time. Film schools even study Three O'Clock High. Shot for shot, it's a textbook.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

So this is feminist corner then.

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Tell the children the truth.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

The classic literature is always modern.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there's no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it's classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it's pro-competition, it offers customers options.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.